Follower Love Giveaway (Int) Feb 7-14

Welcome to the Follower Love Giveway, hosted by I Am A Reader Not A Writer and Rachael Renee Anderson. There are tons of stuff up for grabs! On this blog, you can win an eCopy of Joan Sowards Chocolate Roses A Jane Eyre Parody. Check out my review here. You can read the first two chapters here to wet your appetite.

Janie Rose Whitaker's world revolved around her chocolate shop until Roger Wentworth and his young daughter moved into the apartment across from Janie's. Anyone would think Roger fit the mold of the perfect guy, but soon Janie discovers secrets that could keep them apart forever. Though she resists getting involved in Roger's complicated life, they are drawn further into a bittersweet relationship.


How do you win this wonderful book? Glad you asked. It's as easy as eating chocolate. There are a possibility of three entries. Please leave a seperate comment for each entry.


Mandatory

• Be a follower of this blog via Networked Blogs and/or GFC. Leave me a comment telling me how and an email to contact you if you win.

Optional

• Follow Joan's Blog here. Leave a comment telling me so with an email.

• Spread the chocolate, I mean love. Leave me a comment telling me what you did.

Now, stop by all the other participating blogs and thanks for stopping by! Be sure to check out my other giveaways on the left side bar or here.

Book Reviews and Such

It's been quite a week or two. Last week, my computer died . . . again. So we ended up with a new computer. Then my car decided to get sick. Two trips to the repair shop later, it's feeling better and we're beginning to think a new car will be added to the family by the end of next year. (We're trying to coax another 30,000 miles out of it to reach 200,000. Think we'll make it?) Needless to say, last week was an expensive week.

On the upside, I had the opportunity of going to an ANWA (American Night Writer's Association) writing retreat. I met so many wonderful ladies, many of which I knew from online but have never met face-to-face before, attended fabulous classes and best of all got new books. The only downside to that is I have library books that are coming close to being due and a book I borrowed from my sister-in-law forever ago that I love, it's just taking me sometime to get through, that I need to finish. Sigh. It'll get done soon.

I will be sharing tidbits from the classes I attended at the retreat on a later date. Today there are some book reviews I wanted to post. One of which is in the middle of a blog tour this week.

The first is Courting Miss Lancaster by Sarah M. Eden. What a delightful read. It captured my interest on the first page and I couldn't put it down. I loved the whit and humor throughout the book. I loved the sweet story line and the writing was beautifully done. It had me laughing out loud, which is quite an accomplis

hment since I don't remember the last time a book has done that for me. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who loves a good, well-written, wond

erful story. I'm looking forward to what Sarah comes out with next.

Two--Chocolate Roses by Joan Sowards. This Jane Eyre parody is delightful. Now, I have to admit that I haven't read Jane Eyre so it wasn't exactly what I was expecting, but wonderful still the same. It's a love story with a little mystery and intrigue thrown in. I would recommend this book to anyone. Joan's in the middle of a blog tour with many chances to win her wonderful book. Here are some of the places she's headed. Take a look!

August 3rd

Kaylee Baldwin

Amy Orton

August 4th

Anna del C.

Laura Lewis

August 5th

Valerie Ipson

Anna Arnett

August 6th

Queen of the Clan

Book Buzzin' & Review

Well, I sure didn't expect all the comments to my post on Prop 100. Thanks to everyone who did! There was a great dialogue posted on my facebook wall if anyone is interested in that. I sure have learned a lot from different people.


Anyway, I have these great intentions to post more than once or twice a week, but it seems like the end of the week comes and goes before I can blink. So here we go. This week I'm buzzin' about a great book that I've had the opportunity of reading a few chapters from. Joan Sowards' book Chocolate Roses. From what I've read it is a funny, good read. Here's the back blurb.



Janie Rose Whitaker's world revolved around her chocolate shop until Roger Wentworth and his young daughter moved into the apartment across from Janie's. Anyone would think Roger fit the mold of the "perfect" guy, but soon Janie discovers secrets that could keep them apart forever. Thoush she resists getting involved in Roger's complicated life, they are drawn further into a bittersweet relationship.


You will laugh, cry, and crave chocolate as you read this LDS paraody of the classic novel Jane Eyre.



Take a look at it and let me know what you think!



Here's my book review of the week, D. J. MacHale's Morpheus Road The Light. If you like ghosts stories you will love this book. From the author of the Pendragon Series and Are You Afraid of the Dark? he sure knows how to keep an audience on the edge of their seats. I thought I had the plot line figured out, but I was wrong. I love a book that can throw me like that. I'm excited for the next book in the series, especially with how the epilogue worked. He did a fanstastic job and I would recommend this book to anyone.